This document from childwelfare.gov indicates that a survey from 2002 calculated (based on a sample set of 12,500 people) that 2.6 million people had taken concrete steps to adopt a child and that 614,000 had completed an adoption. I won't comment on the veracity of their extrapolation techniques (I haven't done the research), but the numbers are certainly significant, regardless.
It's a bit of a digression from the specific issue under discussion and there are elements of justice that must be considered. But in general, I would support the implementation of a system that allowed for the efficient pairing of children in need with parents who want to help them. And there are many, many such parents out there.
I just upgraded to a Galaxy Nexus with Verizon; I love it, but it has some significant problems. Saying "just get a Galaxy Nexus" as if it is devoid of "hardware / carrier software modification problem(s)" is highly misleading. I read many reports of problems with the reception on the Galaxy Nexus before I bought it, so it didn't take me by surprise.
With 4G enabled, this thing has the worst reception of any phone I've every seen (I also have a Verizon iPhone 4S for work and bought the original, AT&T 4GB iPhone the day it came out in 2007). It gets a whiff of 4G, tries to switch, loses the signal and takes minutes to return to 3G. In the meantime, I have an "x" over my reception and can't do anything. Seriously terrible. And I haven't seen any such problems with the iPhone 4S (a 3G-only device, of course).
That's okay, though - I can disable 4G (select "CDMA" instead of "LTE/CDMA" in the settings) and it works fine as a 3G phone; I didn't buy it for the 4G.
For reference, I live in the Portland area, which I think has fairly decent 4G coverage (my wife's Incredible 4G seems to work fine).
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This document from childwelfare.gov indicates that a survey from 2002 calculated (based on a sample set of 12,500 people) that 2.6 million people had taken concrete steps to adopt a child and that 614,000 had completed an adoption. I won't comment on the veracity of their extrapolation techniques (I haven't done the research), but the numbers are certainly significant, regardless.
http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/s_seek.pdf#Page=2&view=Fit
It's a bit of a digression from the specific issue under discussion and there are elements of justice that must be considered. But in general, I would support the implementation of a system that allowed for the efficient pairing of children in need with parents who want to help them. And there are many, many such parents out there.
I just upgraded to a Galaxy Nexus with Verizon; I love it, but it has some significant problems. Saying "just get a Galaxy Nexus" as if it is devoid of "hardware / carrier software modification problem(s)" is highly misleading. I read many reports of problems with the reception on the Galaxy Nexus before I bought it, so it didn't take me by surprise.
With 4G enabled, this thing has the worst reception of any phone I've every seen (I also have a Verizon iPhone 4S for work and bought the original, AT&T 4GB iPhone the day it came out in 2007). It gets a whiff of 4G, tries to switch, loses the signal and takes minutes to return to 3G. In the meantime, I have an "x" over my reception and can't do anything. Seriously terrible. And I haven't seen any such problems with the iPhone 4S (a 3G-only device, of course).
That's okay, though - I can disable 4G (select "CDMA" instead of "LTE/CDMA" in the settings) and it works fine as a 3G phone; I didn't buy it for the 4G.
For reference, I live in the Portland area, which I think has fairly decent 4G coverage (my wife's Incredible 4G seems to work fine).